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[PATCH 1/8] Removing -n option from git-diff-files documentation

From
Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
Date
Apr 27, 2007, 05:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20070427050550.GA9594@bowser.ruder>

-n is not a short form of --no-index as the documentation suggests. Removing it from the documentation and command usage string.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
---
 Documentation/git-diff-files.txt |    4 ++--
 builtin-diff-files.c             |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
index b78c4c6..2e1e29e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the index
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff-files' [-q] [-0|-1|-2|-3|-c|--cc|-n|--no-index] [<common diff options>] [<path>...]
+'git-diff-files' [-q] [-0|-1|-2|-3|-c|--cc|--no-index] [<common diff options>] [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show "Unmerged".
 	diff, similar to the way 'diff-tree' shows a merge
 	commit with these flags.
 
-\-n,\--no-index::
+--no-index::
 	Compare the two given files / directories.
 
 -q::
diff --git a/builtin-diff-files.c b/builtin-diff-files.c
index 6ba5077..6cb30c8 100644
--- a/builtin-diff-files.c
+++ b/builtin-diff-files.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include "builtin.h"
 
 static const char diff_files_usage[] =
-"git-diff-files [-q] [-0/-1/2/3 |-c|--cc|-n|--no-index] [<common diff options>] [<path>...]"
+"git-diff-files [-q] [-0/-1/2/3 |-c|--cc|--no-index] [<common diff options>] [<path>...]"
 COMMON_DIFF_OPTIONS_HELP;
 
 int cmd_diff_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
-- 
1.5.2.rc0.64.g8476
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